Long before the Idolator flophouse ever existed, there was the Corinthian Street compound down here in sunny Philadelphia, where your guest blogger and the head Idolator used to listen to music and chat late into the evening. We joked often about putting together one of those old-fangled things called “‘zines”, but it never materialized. Today is the day–after several years of instant messaging and bookmark-sharing–that this becomes a reality. Behold, the power of the Internet and push-button publishing … or something like that.
For someone who looks awful in hats, I seem to wear a lot of them these days: former roommate, blogger, radio personality, photographer, graphic designer, and contributor to outlets such as the Philadelphia City Paper, Paper Thin Walls, and Pitchfork. And for reasons that escape me, I’m currently contributing to Billboard’s “Mobile Beat” blog. I do a mean rendition of Jefferson Airplane’s “Somebody to Love” and I’m fascinated by the musical selections of figure skaters.
OK, have I proven myself to you? Yes? Fantastic. One final thing: you can call me Maria or MTS. I won’t stand for this “Maria Tessa Sciarrino” nonsense, even if it was all of my fault to begin with. If time machines become a reality, I’m jumping in one to tell my teenage self that using my full name is the stupidest thing I’ve done next to attending art school.
wtf is up with the new look?
hows that super sweet camera phone? i bet you’ll be the best music photo..blog… phlogger out there! congrats web 2.0 champion
not to start off on the wrong foot, but where I live, MTS stands for maladies à transmission sexuelles.
Over to you, MTS.
Your figure-skating success at EMP is inspiring me to just go, already.
As well you should. Rah MTS!
don’t spurn the billboard mobile beat blog, maria, embrace it. caress it.
If it makes you feel any better when I was an aspiring novelist I insisted on putting my my full name on my manuscripts. Which may be another reason I was never published. Well, that and I wasn’t particularly good.
@katie_a_princess: I’m not spurning it, I swear! I think I’m still in shock that I was picked for a contest — which never, ever, ever happens to me — thank you!
Best of luck to you and Maura today with your virtual ‘zine. I’ll try to see if my monitor has a “poorly photocopied” setting to simulate the experience.
@MTS: Wilkommen!
And I’m glad you posted this, because I didn’t even know there was a Billboard Mobile Beat blog. And I’m sitting right next to Katie. I’m a bad monkey.
@oovy: BUSTED
THANK ME LATER, AFTER THE BEATINGS